Shortly after his world history students began a pilot program testing a digital textbook for the iPad, Ken Halla noticed something different: His students were actually reading their textbooks. “How ...
Last summer, someone suggested I test out technology for a grant that covered the use of technology in the classroom, and I roped Dan into submitting a grant proposal, and we won. We tested out the ...
When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. That is, until she ran the pilot ...
Ed tech company Knewton has launched a collection of digital courseware that integrates its adaptive technology with open education resources, with the intention of selling directly to instructors and ...
“While no one was looking, someone revolutionized the textbook,” says Kno about its twin-screened tablet PC. Is this just misplaced overconfidence? Deep pocketed VC backers think not. “While no one ...
Kui Xie receives funding from Ohio Department of Education and Ohio Department of Higher Education. Nicole Luthy receives funding from the Ohio Department of Higher Education, the Ohio Department of ...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has an ambitious plan to reduce the cost of education in California. He intends for the state to develop digital open source textbooks for high school math and science ...
Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), a wing under the Department of General Education, on Sunday launched its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) textbooks for ...
A grant of $650,000 to Yale from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow scholars to apply the newest digital technology to advance their knowledge of the hand-scribed legacy of the Middle Ages.
The second installment of Quartz's four-part series The Vanishing University claims that “college textbooks are going the way of Netflix." Do you believe it? The authors, Allison Schrager and Amy X.
A report released last week by a national education technology group suggests schools switch to digital instructional materials by 2017 and highlights some of the policy barriers that must be knocked ...